‘I’m a Political Prisoner!’ Steve Bannon Returns from Lockup With MAGA Battle Plan, Urges Trump Declare Victory
Former Trump campaign manager and White House advisor Steve Bannon was back on the air Tuesday morning after being let out of federal prison. Bannon, who served four months for contempt of Congress, sounded a rallying cry for his MAGA base and urged them to prepare for a post-election battle to ensure Donald Trump retakes the White House.
Bannon, known for pushing election conspiracies, claimed that the Democrats are gearing up to deny Trump a win and urged Trump to declare victory immediately if his vote totals look similar to 2020 — an election he lost. “He should stand up and say: ‘Hey, I’ve won this. And we have teams right now that are going to make sure that this thing is not going to be stolen,’” Bannon declared.
He went on to speak directly to his audience, saying, “You’re the backbone of this movement. We have two things we’re going to talk about today, the get out the vote effort focused on our first phase, which is November 5th.”
“Then the second is to make sure that they cannot steal the election with Marc Elias and others of these the nullification project that they’re bringing in, which goes from November 5th all the way to Inauguration Day, but January 6th being a key part of that,” Bannon continued, adding:
We’ll talk about in a second. The other is the delegitimization process. I have never heard and I think most people would agree, the rhetoric that’s come out about American citizens calling this audience, not just Donald Trump and not the people around Donald Trump, that’s bad enough calling us fascist, but calling you fascist, saying that that fantastic, that amazing rally in Madison Square Garden that could never be pulled off by Kamala Harris or the Democrats with that energy and people from Tulsi Gabbard to Elon Musk, just the broad cross-section you had of American entrepreneurs, Vivek Ramaswamy, you had these powerhouses up there right in there trying to smash that with one influencer’s kind of throwaway, not funny line.
I can tell you, in coming from being a political prisoner in a federal prison, that the young men in this country that are African-American and Hispanic detest, detest Kamala Harris. They detest her.
We’re going to go into details today and at the press conference on why that’s up. But we have a chance to move past race on November 5th. Everything, everything, everything we have fought for for so many years is all coming to fruition. And we have to have a convergence. And my fear is that. Some people, I think, are trying to lean on ourselves, say, look at the polls, these polls and Trump always under polls and he does this, as always, trumps up 3 or 4 or five. Hey, maybe that’s the case, but that’s theoretical right now. Reality is, is the electorate we bring on November 5th and that gets back to you.
Bannon later turned his focus to his prison sentence, saying, “You know, Nancy Pelosi sent me to a federal prison. She sent me to a federal prison as a political prisoner to do two things to make sure that she tried to tamp down the power of this show. Right. Tamp down the power of the show and also to break me, Nancy Pelosi. Take out your number two pencil and write this down. This show has never been more powerful. The voices behind it have never been more powerful.”
“The audience has never been more powerful. And we’re going to deliver a knockout blow to your progressive insanity on 5th November, and then we’re going to secure the deal after that. And number two, the four months in federal prison. Now, I didn’t break me. It empowered me. I am more energized and more focused than I’ve ever been in my entire life. And I can see clearly, just like in 2016 and in 2020, exactly what’s going on here and what we have to do to defeat it,” Bannon declared.
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